Mechanisms of stable lipid loss in a social insect

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 3808-3821

  Ament, Seth A ^a   Chan, Queenie W ^b   Wheeler, Marsha M ^a   Nixon, Scott E ^a   Johnson, S Peir ^a   Rodriguez Zas, Sandra L ^a   Foster, Leonard J ^b   Robinson, Gene E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Metabolism; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; PHEROMONE; TRANSCRIPTOME; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; DIET; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEES; DIET; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; LIPID METABOLISM; PHEROMONES; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTOME; VITELLOGENINS;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 80054990483     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.060244     Document Type: Article

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